Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony

Anthony was a mover and shaker in the early women's rights movement. She became a close friend and ally to Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was a "spinster" who never married. There has been much written about Ms. Anthony. I wanted to focus on her on this primary day here in Texas. Susan B. Anthony strived for women's suffrage, was arrested for attempting to vote, and died before women got the vote she worked her life for.

Ken Burns made a documentary about Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. If you haven't seen it yet, you can at least go to the official site and learn more about their work together.

It is imperative that we exercise our right to vote after all the work Anthony and MANY others did to get it for us. If you don't vote, you can't complain. I'm sorry, but that's the way it is. After the struggle for women's suffrage and the work of the Civil Rights era, there is just no excuse for not voting.